There’s a story from TV-13 in Houston, TX, about a guy named Mattie who wants to start up a small business of his own. Mattie wants his own business so he won’t have to show up for work in the morning. This kid likes to sleep late.

Funding is always a problem in a business start-up. Mattie claims his new venture will be a record company and his girlfriend will be his first recording star. His solution to the funding problem is to cash a check from his girl friend’s mother’s bank account. The young man tells the bank teller his girl friend’s mother gave him the check as a gift.

The truth is, Mattie secretly tore a check out of the back of his girl friend’s mother’s checkbook when nobody was looking. The bank found out about the "history" of the stolen check when they called to verify the draft.

There’s another "caution flag" about this check, but we’ll get to that in a minute. The teller signals the bank manager who calls the cops. Moments later, Mattie is challenged by two police officers.

He submits to a search and the cops find a .25-caliber semi-automatic handgun and a spare clip of ammunition in his pocket, plus a baggie of marijuana. This isn’t exactly routine equipment for a guy trying to set up a new record company.

Now about the check. It was made out for a rather large sum—more than any check ever seen at this bank. If you want to do the math, there are ten zeros following a three digit number. Nobody at the bank, including the senior officers, ever saw a check for $360 billion before. That’s a "B" as in BILLION!

The cops slip the uncashed check into a plastic evidence bag. The gun and the dope go into separate bags and Mattie is handcuffed and taken to the city jail.

So far he is charged with "unlawful weapon," and "possession of less than two ounces of marijuana." The cops also expect to charge Mattie with "forgery" for the $360 billion check.